Essayist, poet, and philosopher Henry David Thoreau (1817-62) ranks among America\'s foremost nature writers.
Canoeing in the Wilderness, the 1857 diary of a two-week sojourn in Maine, chronicles the author\'s travels with a friend an.
His thoughts on leading a simple, independent life remain a foundation of modern environmentalism, as captured in Walden , his best-known work .
The Concord, Massachusetts, native spent most of his life observing the natural world of New England.
Essayist, poet, and philosopher Henry David Thoreau (1817-62) ranks among America\'s foremost nature writers